Native Apple Watch. Elite metrics. Phone optional.
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Distance
5.04KM
Pace
4:52/KM
Time
24:31MIN
AI coaches. AI analytics. AI everything.
Not here. Just run simple.
Android coming soon
KOVA for iPhone + Apple Watch is in App Store review. Android phone in development for Q4 2026; Wear OS to follow.
Apple Watch tracks the full run on its own. Navigation-grade GPS. Barometric elevation from the iPhone and Watch sensors. Cadence from Apple's own step counter. Heart rate streamed every second. Wrist-drop keeps the run going while the screen rests. Your phone can stay in a drawer. Your watch is enough.
Pace updates on a 15-second rolling window — so the number on your wrist tracks the run, not the GPS jitter. Grade-adjusted pace for the hills. HR drift to flag the over-cooked tempo. Polarised zone time. ACWR for the training load. No generic insights. Every metric earns its place.
$9.99 CAD / month. $49.99 CAD / year. Same price on iPhone and Android. 7-day free trial on annual. No bundles, no upsells, no "Pro+" tier waiting six months in. Personal Bests are free forever — that’s the hook, and we kept it. Decide once. Run.
PACE
Most apps average pace across the whole run. KOVA reads it on a 15-second rolling window. Mid-stride, the number on your watch is what you’re actually running, not what you ran. The rolling-window pace tracks the run, not the GPS jitter. Slow on the hill, the number knows. Pick it back up, the number knows.
ANALYTICS
A readiness score from your last 7 days of training. Acute-to-chronic workload ratio with the sports-medicine sweet spot called out. Injury risk tier. HR drift across recent runs. The numbers a coach would check before letting you tempo on Tuesday — on your phone, every morning.
Your Progress
Readiness
100/ 100
You're primed. Great day for a tempo run or race effort.
Last session
7 DAYS AGO
Consecutive
1 STREAK
Injury Risk · ACWR
1.04Ratio
7-Day
33
28-Day Avg
31
Sessions
1
WATCH
Three pages on your wrist. Page 1 — pace, distance, time, heart rate. Page 2 — cadence, splits, goal progress. Page 3 — pause, end. That’s the whole interface. Numerals are big enough to read mid-stride. Lime is alive, orange is end. The watch starts the run, the watch ends the run, the watch saves the run. Your phone never has to leave the drawer.
Pace
5:24/KM
Dist
3.42 KM
HR
148 BPM
PERSONAL BESTS
1K. 5K. 10K. Half marathon. Running and walking. Every session is checked against your record. Beat it, the watch flashes lime and the summary screen says so. The attempts log shows every PB-eligible run — the ones you hit, the ones you didn’t. No badges, no kudos, no leaderboard. Just the numbers you are training to beat. Personal Bests are free forever, on the free tier and on Pro.
★ Walk Complete
2.62
KM
32:10
MIN
12:15
/KM
213
KCAL
129
BPM
Time in Zones
NEW · FREE FOR EVERYONE
High-contrast inverted display for dawn and dusk runs.
Tap. Phone goes hi-vis. The active-run screen flips to a high-luminosity lime background with deep-black text — readable at a glance whether you’re squinting through 5 a.m. fog or 10 p.m. lamplight. Activity-aware: lime for runs, orange for walks. Free for every Kova user, on every plan, forever.
KOVA
Run Simple
Elapsed
8:31
Distance Run
1.04KM
HARD
VO2 max
Tap Night Mode on the screen — it really flips.
Try it
Pick a distance. Drag your goal. See the pace you need and what it means for every other race. Then go hold it — KOVA tracks every split on your wrist.
Pace Lab
Goal time · 10K
52:00
Required pace
5:12/KM
Equivalent races
5K
24:56
HALF
1:54:44
FULL
3:59:13
Projected with Riegel’s race-equivalence model. KOVA tracks every split so you can hold the pace, not just plan it.
Pricing
$9.99CAD / MONTH
OR $49.99 CAD / YEAR — 7-DAY FREE TRIAL · SAME PRICE ON IPHONE + ANDROID
See PricingYes. Apple Watch tracks the full run on its own — GPS, heart rate, cadence, elevation, splits, pace. Your phone can stay home. Runs sync to your iPhone and to kova-run.app the next time the Watch is in range.
Strongly recommended. KOVA is built Watch-first — the run is designed to happen on your wrist. The iPhone-only mode works, but you lose live heart rate and the wrist-drop tracking. If you have an Apple Watch Series 6 or newer, use it.
Coming Q4 2026. KOVA for Android phone is in active development, with Wear OS to follow. We're launching iPhone + Apple Watch first to ship one platform well — Android follows once the iPhone build is in runners' hands and battle-tested.
Your annual plan starts billing — $49.99 CAD / year. Cancel anytime in iOS Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions (or, when Android lands Q4 2026, Google Play → Subscriptions). You keep Pro until the year ends. Personal Bests stay free forever. The 7-day free trial applies to the annual plan only.
Only what you choose to back up. Runs sync to your private cloud account so kova-run.app can show them on your laptop. Heart-rate samples stay in Apple Health. We never sell your data. Account deletion in iOS Settings → Account erases everything — runs, splits, PBs — across iOS and web.
